IPv6 not responding on some aliases (recent 8-stable)

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Fri Dec 23 09:17:12 UTC 2011


On 22. Dec 2011, at 20:39 , Marcin Cieslak wrote:

>>> Bjoern A. Zeeb <bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote:
>>> I initially thought it's a transport layer issue, since previously (before
>>> I changed configuration) 30%-50% SSH connection attempts succeeded
>>> (but prefix was wrong on the "primary" IPv6 address :1000).
>>> Now I get no packets on receiving side at all for those "broken" IPv6 addresses.
>> 
>> Talk to ywhomever is providing in front of you to
>> 1) either relax nd6 table limits or
>> 2) to route a /64 to your host to only have 1 entry in the neighbour table.
>> 
>> That's most likely the problem given my crystal ball and experience.
> 
> Thank you for insightful analysis! 
> Seems like this provider has some significant IPv6 takeup, which is
> good news - sorry for hassle, but problems started after upgrade. 
> 
> I'll talk to my upstream then, thanks!

Please let us know of the results, especially if my crystal ball was wrong.

/bz

-- 
Bjoern A. Zeeb                                 You have to have visions!
         Stop bit received. Insert coin for new address family.


More information about the freebsd-net mailing list